ocean acidification

I am a climate scientist on holiday in the Blue Mountains, watching climate change in action

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi had a knack for back-of-the-envelope calculations. In a famous lunch-time conversation in 1950, Fermi used his knowledge of astronomy and probability to highlight a problem: If intelligent life exists elsewhere in the galaxy and if long-distance space travel is achievable, then Earth should have been visited by aliens by now.

A major Calgary-based energy company is facing its fourth lawsuit in U.S. courts over climate change. The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations — the largest commercial fishermen’s group on the West Coast — has included Encana in a lawsuit attempting to link greenhouse gas emissions from 30 energy companies to damage in the crab fishery.

Lost in the heated arguments over Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans Mountain pipeline is this simple fact: more than a quarter of the bitumen flowing through it will end up as pollution spilling into our oceans — one way or the other.

Almost two dozen marine scientists from around the world have issued a warning about an often-overlooked side effect of climate change and pollution.

Scientists have found the world's first large-scale area of acidified water in the open ocean in the seas of the western Arctic.

While many may be suffering from ‘climate apocalypse fatigue’ there is an undeniable tsunami wave of citizen action building worldwide.

Justin Trudeau must take swift action to cut Canada's emissions following the signing of the Paris Accord. The Liberal and NDP governments would appear to be talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Left unchecked, ocean acidification could have devastating consequences for the North American West Coast.